When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the practical man.' By this time I knew,

from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it. - Richard P. Feynman

I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedia. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy,

and i thought i had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art. - Guillermo del Toro

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, :and I learned all the different flags, and I tired to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships. - George R. R. Martin

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given

I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, Vacation packages ... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, beacuse no one wants Time Life Books.

No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house. - Adam DeVine

You have a diasporic black world, and the only wy to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the :'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years.